Are the Patriots faking it? (Their Bad Pre-Season)?

Question

Do you think the New England Patriots are just setting up the rest of the league by playing bad in the Pre-Season and not getting into it. Is it just a ploy by the prophet Bellichick and will they really just destroy their competition like usual?

Answer 1

no - they limited their first team play all pre-season and were sizing up new players. I think they will dummyup once the season starts, but they arent the same team they were last year and wont go 16-0 probably more like 12-4

Answer 2

Yeah, and i also think they almost really want to win instead of just teasing there selfs with the aroma of a championship gameday and just falling a sleep at the table of greatness and blowing bubbles in there soup and cavear.  

Answer 3

faking what?  Brady hasn't played the preseason (like most tenured star QB's) and neither has most of the other stars.  The Pats use the preseason the way their supposed to... find out what they have behind the starters.  They're less concerned with winning the preseason (which is pointless) and more concerned with keeping starters healthy and finding "diamonds in the rough".

Answer 4

King Bellichick thinks differently about the pre-season than any other NFL coach. He uses it to fill in the gaps that transpired through the off season. He tries to keep his last year starters as starters, trains them differently, and tries to keep them injury safe. As for the drafts and other transactions aquired, it's called play hard in pre-season and make a spot. again, he has a different mindset.

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure they didn't tell Matt Casel to suck...

Answer 6

no of course not.. Tom Brady hasn't even taken a snap yet

Answer 7

I don't think so considering Tom Brady hasn't played a single down. And for some odd reason the really good teams usually don't do well during the preseason. I know the Colts usually lose most of their preseason games every year but they always end up having a 12-4 or 13-3 record.

Answer 8

No I don't agree with this whole the patriots are gonna suck now because they had a bad PRE-SEASON!

the keyword their is pre-season it doesn't count pre-season is the part of the season where teams try to work out the kinks...the pats figured out most of their problems and if anything it helped them get better not worse...get over it the bad pre-season thing its getting really old...

Answer 9

They aren't faking it.Brady hasn't been playing all preseason because he is hurt and they don't use their best players during preseason.They will win during the regular season.I'm not saying every game but they will be good again this year.No evil plot-just playing the second string.They are saving the best players for the regular season and not stupid preseason that means absolutely nothing.Any smart coach does that.